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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By: Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel

Overview of this book

Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its variety of powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 5 for effectively monitoring the performance of devices and applications over networks. The book starts by guiding you through the installation of Zabbix and using the Zabbix frontend. You'll then work your way through the most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. The book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use the Zabbix API for customization and manage your Zabbix server and database efficiently. Finally, you'll find quick solutions to the common and not-so-common problems that you may encounter in your everyday Zabbix monitoring work. By the end of this Zabbix book, you’ll have learned how to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and be able to build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Monitoring your Zabbix proxies

A lot of Zabbix users—or even monitoring users in general—forget a very important part of their monitoring. They forget to monitor the monitoring infrastructure. I want to make sure that when you set up Zabbix proxies, you also know how to monitor the health of these proxies.

Let's check out how to do so in this recipe.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need our new lar-book-proxy-active Zabbix proxy. We will also need our Zabbix server to monitor the Zabbix proxy.

How to do it…

We are going to build some monitoring in our Zabbix frontend, but we'll also check the integrated monitoring options for Zabbix proxies. Let's start by building our own.

Monitoring the proxy with Zabbix

We can monitor our Zabbix proxy with Zabbix proxy itself to make sure we know exactly what's going on:

  1. Let's start by logging in to our lar-book-proxy-active Zabbix proxy CLI.
  2. Issue the following...